Now the Jains officially recognise all the Gods of the Hindu creed, as well as the Lingam and the Snake. They wear the Brahminical thread; they adhere to every claim of Hindu caste-law.

European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

The harnessing done, he barked suddenly at the house, and there appeared Millie, hatted and gloved[.]

The opening extract from Toni Morrison's novel Sula alludes to the balcony areas of white churches, cinemas, theatres and opera houses where Black people sat during the time of segregation in the USA, which were referred to in the 1900s as 'nigger heavens', reflecting a spacio-cultural distance and the separate experiences of Black and white communities.